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Major League Baseball reached out to its next generation of players with the 20-round MLB Draft, last week in Texas. As we reported last week, Wake Forest took center stage in the first round, with […]
Major League Baseball reached out to its next generation of players with the 20-round MLB Draft, last week in Texas. As we reported last week, Wake Forest took center stage in the first round, with […]
The Cowtown Coliseum is normally home to rodeo events as the premiere attraction of the Fort Worth Stockyards, but, as host of the 2024 MLB Draft, it became Winston-Salem West. Wake Forest was the consensus […]
I admit it. I’m an addict. I cannot resist watching the Olympics. I’m glued to my television and love every minute of it. When I can’t watch, I stay tuned on my phone for updates. […]
Dirk Gibson was born to have adventures. As a wild-eyed, long-haired kid, his family and friends affectionately referred to him as Mowgli, the “jungle boy.” His teenage and college years were spent traversing the untamed […]
RALEIGH — The North Carolina gubernatorial race heated up this week as Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign issued a cease-and-desist letter to opponent Attorney General Josh Stein over a campaign advertisement. “This letter puts Josh […]
CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte Hornets finished up their 2024 Summer League — one where they nearly made the league’s semifinals — this past weekend. The Hornets were a combined 7-1 in both the Sacramento and […]
CHARLOTTE — After a drawn-out, lengthy process with extensive talks between team executives and player agents, the Charlotte Hornets have retained a key component of their roster going forward. Per multiple reports over the weekend, […]
CHARLOTTE — With head of basketball ops Jeff Peterson and coach Charles Lee now steering the ship of the revamped Charlotte Hornets, the team walked away with two new players from last week’s 2024 […]
CHARLOTTE — After a drawn-out, lengthy process with extensive talks between team executives and player agents, the Charlotte Hornets have retained a key component of their roster going forward. Per multiple reports over the weekend, […]
CHARLOTTE — With head of basketball ops Jeff Peterson and coach Charles Lee now steering the ship of the revamped Charlotte Hornets, the team walked away with two new players from last week’s 2024 […]
RALEIGH — The Carolina Hurricanes agreed to a two-year contract worth $13 million with restricted free agent Martin Necas on Monday, re-signing the forward who had been the subject of offseason trade rumors. “Martin is […]
EA Sports College Football 25, among the most highly anticipated sports video games of all time, has flooded the market as gamers who waited more than a decade for the franchise’s next installment rush to […]
RALEIGH — North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger’s chief of staff was named Thursday as CEO of the parent company of the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes. Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon announced the hiring of Brian Fork, […]
The MLB All-Star Break will get started with the All-Star Futures Game on Saturday, in Arlington, Texas. The annual contest gives fans a look at tomorrow’s stars, bringing together the top minor league prospects in […]
CAPTION: “Still Life with Bible” by Vincent van Gogh (1885) is a painting in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. (Public Domain) By Charles Naylor Do I believe the old Book? Do […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An iconoclastic filmmaking legend and one of the world’s most enduring musical acts headline this year’s crop of Kennedy Center Honors recipients. Director Francis Ford Coppola and the Grateful Dead will be […]
The long-awaited debut album from Ice Spice and the movie “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,” with new and old franchise stars, are some new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among […]
Moviegoers ran toward the tornadoes this weekend, propelling “Twisters” to a blockbuster opening. The standalone sequel to the 1996 hit made $80.5 million in ticket sales from 4,151 theaters in North America, according to studio […]
“This Week” looks back at the key events from this week in history. July 18 1536: The English Parliament passed an act that declared the pope’s authority void in England. 1918: South African anti-apartheid leader […]
This week, Natalie Portman stars in her first TV series, “Lady in the Lake,” for Apple TV+, Roland Emmerich’s gladiator series “Those About to Die” streams on Peacock, and rapper Childish Gambino drops his sixth […]
Kamala Harris’ father, Donald Harris, was a tenured self-professed Marxist economist at Stanford University. Joseph Anthony Buttigieg II, father of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, was an openly admitted tenured Marxist professor of literature at Notre […]
“With fear for our democracy,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor concludes in her brilliant dissent in Trump v. United States, “I dissent.” She is right. Very frighteningly right. After reading what happened at the oral argument, I […]
Why would any legitimate presidential prospect — outside Vice President Kamala Harris — consider jumping into the unprecedented chaos of 2024? Right now, Govs. Gretchen Whitmer or Josh Shapiro — or whoever — can sit […]
President Trump understands that the world is dangerous and that it takes an enormous effort to defeat anti-American and anti-freedom forces around the world. He also understands that when faced with multiple adversaries across the […]
This has been a truly exciting week in the realm of politics. You may be tired of hearing about it all, but I must weigh in. I can’t help myself. An assassination attempt on former […]
This November, North Carolinians will decide again who will lead the Department of Agriculture for the next four years: current Republican Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler, who owns Guilford County’s Troxler Farms, or Democrat Sarah Taber, […]
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